Pronunciations that drive you mad

Osgoodisgood

Fluid when pronounced as a single syllable "flewd" is maddening

LordSutch

Coll-Yum

Docament (document).

Noos (instead of News)

Thigh-land

Tre-à-ty

Dr.Strange

What's with people saying 'off-er' instead of offer?

It's usually said in a D4 type accent.

Most annoying.

Cokeistan

Not sure if it's been mentioned here or not but...

I hate it when people say "Scon" instead of "Scone", drives me mental!!!!

plys

Auld Dubliners replace 'by the time' with "AGEN"

ie instead of:

'By the time I got to the shops...'

they say..

'Agen I got to the shops...'

might be a little OT since, istead of being a mispronunciation, they've INVENTED A NEW F**KING WORD!!!! :eek:

(any Dubs care to try explain this to me..??!)

dxhound2005

Cokeistan wrote: »

Not sure if it's been mentioned here or not but...

I hate it when people say "Scon" instead of "Scone", drives me mental!!!!

See post #317 on page 22.

slievenamon fella

wat really drives me mad is when someone says huse instead of hose or hummer instead of hammer:mad:

Breadcrusts

Was gonna say the 'Scon' one, ridiculously annoying.

I also have a friend who says BURTday instead of Birthday which just wrecks my head...

Ruralyoke

plys wrote: »

'Agen I got to the shops...'

Lived in the place for years and never heard this one.

Heard package o' crips more times than I would have liked alright.

pickarooney

Wibbs wrote: »

Another Hiberno-English thing IIRC BC. Again IIRC(and Irish scholars look away:)) as Gealige you don't get the hard D in the middle of a word like that the way you do as Bearla, it's more a G/J sound. Another one is "Garjian" for Guardian.

But tremendous doesn't have a broad vowel after the D so I don't think that theory stands up to much scrutiny (lots of Irish words have a hard D, albeit less hard than in English, before a broad vowel and the lenition of the D before a narrow one is not particularly Irish). The 'j' sound is more a product of the speaker seeing a phantom 'i' after the D. The error is quite common in other English speaking countries as well, to the point that it's listed in many 'what not to say' books.

Mance Rayder

AARland instead of Ireland bugs me.

When people (particularly dubs) say Wor instead of We're as in "Wor going to the shop".

The King of Moo

Dr.Strange wrote: »

What's with people saying 'off-er' instead of offer?

It's usually said in a D4 type accent.

Most annoying.

Which syllable is the emphasis on?

Dr.Strange

The King of Moo wrote: »

Which syllable is the emphasis on?

It's more like they say 'aww-fer', with an empahsis on the 'aww'.

I've heard it a few times and it sounds really pretentious.

missbelle

Dr.Strange wrote: »

It's more like they say 'aww-fer', with an empahsis on the 'aww'.

I've heard it a few times and it sounds really pretentious.

Sounds a bit culchie too the way it's written

Dr.Strange

missbelle wrote: »

Sounds a bit culchie too the way it's written

Try saying it, as if you're like, from D4?!

The King of Moo

Dr.Strange wrote: »

It's more like they say 'aww-fer', with an empahsis on the 'aww'.

I've heard it a few times and it sounds really pretentious.

Yeah, I hear that the odd time. I think it might come from people picking it up from American accents they hear on TV, some of which elongate the first part of the word a bit like you described.

plys

Ruralyoke wrote: »

Lived in the place for years and never heard this one.

Heard package o' crips more times than I would have liked alright.

It's alive and well I'm afraid, try hanging around Fingerless, The Mun or Blanch.

Bipolar Joe

The way Americans say urbs instead of herbs. Makes my ears hurt.

missbelle

Dr.Strange wrote: »

Try saying it, as if you're like, from D4?!

When I think Awww, I think of a Cavan/Monaghan twang - don't get me started on their accents/pronunciations!!

Susie_Q

Today my colleague tried to say the word 'medicinal'. What came out was 'med-ih-see-nal'.

PAINFUL.

nice_very

ree-ock-a (Rioja)

Coeurdepirate

"Troath".

dodderangler

People that say 'fearri' instead of Ferrari
Really annoys me Don't hear it often but odd time I would

AllyMcFearless

Scone as 'scon'.. that one has always irked me!
Dart as dorsh, window sill as window still, chimney and chimley and my all time favorite..your as yisser..

WHAT IS A YISSER?!

grindle

AllyMcFearless wrote: »

WHAT IS A YISSER?!

Yisser

Youse are.

You are.

grindle

Double Postenetration.

Judgement Day

AllyMcFearless wrote: »

Scone as 'scon'.. that one has always irked me!
Dart as dorsh, window sill as window still, chimney and chimley and my all time favorite..your as yisser..

WHAT IS A YISSER?!

Scon is the British/Anglo-Irish version of scone and if it's good enough for Monty Python it's good enough for me.
Definitive pronunciation at 0.56 on video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg

KingKongMofo

When people say "irregardless"

Ruralyoke

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

"Troath".

For "throat" ?

Oh yeah. That's a very bad one.

real stig

Comm-it-eeeeee

grindle

CahLENder.
Usually said by the COMitty people.

Gbear

Cokeistan wrote: »

Not sure if it's been mentioned here or not but...

I hate it when people say "Scon" instead of "Scone", drives me mental!!!!

If you're looking for precedent on how to pronounce it you can look at gone rhyming with scon or alone rhyming with scone.

English is a stupid language with rubbish grammatical rules that don't work but that's another thread entirely.

I think "scon" is technically correct but I think it sounds stupid so i say "scone".

dxhound2005

Gbear wrote: »

If you're looking for precedent on how to pronounce it you can look at gone rhyming with scon or alone rhyming with scone.

English is a stupid language with rubbish grammatical rules that don't work but that's another thread entirely.

I think "scon" is technically correct but I think it sounds stupid so i say "scone".

Both are correct.

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=scone&submit=Submit


I asked the maid in dulcet tone

To order me a buttered scone.

The silly girl has been and gone

And ordered me a buttered scone.

Mayo_Boy

"Cum" as in Come

celtictiger32

that fella pat spillane from kerry saying 'ermegh' for armagh:mad:

The Radiator

Frada

fricatus

The Radiator wrote: »

Frada

So this pronunciation annoys you... but for the benefit of those of us who can't read your mind, what's the actual word being pronounced?

Ruralyoke

I'll get it. I'm working on it....

dragona

The expression *WILL i get you some apples from Tesco?* *WILL I put the cat out?* *WILL I bring it in to you* What is wrong with should I,shall I, can I ?

Fulton Crown

mikemac1 wrote: »

Patsy down the road died, did you hear?

Yes I heard he died of a Thursday

When is the funeral?

It's of a Sunday

Was that Patsy O'Hara from down Drisheen way ?

I never knew he was gone....poor Patsy..well liked ...

Lon.C

A girl I know calls Paris... Paaaris. It really gets me. And she seems to say it an awful lot.
How the fook can someone always get Paris into conversation!!

validusername1

People pronouncing Lidl as ''lih-dil'' or ''l-eye-dil''. IT'S PRONOUNCED LIKE ''LEE-DIL''.

See;
http://www.rightpronunciation.com/details.asp?id=3709&id2=23

Annoys me so much. And because so many people pronounce it wrong (mostly ''lih-dil'' from what I hear), they generally refuse to believe that the majority of them have been pronouncing it wrong the whole time.

Judgement Day

Funny, it's one of the pronunciations that I don't give a toss about as I despise all supermarket chains. I have always wrongly (?) called it Lid-dyl and will proudly continue to do so. Good for cheap organic milk though.

BattleCorp

validusername1 wrote: »

People pronouncing Lidl as ''lih-dil'' or ''l-eye-dil''. IT'S PRONOUNCED LIKE ''LEE-DIL''.

See;
http://www.rightpronunciation.com/details.asp?id=3709&id2=23

Annoys me so much. And because so many people pronounce it wrong (mostly ''lih-dil'' from what I hear), they generally refuse to believe that the majority of them have been pronouncing it wrong the whole time.

In fairness, most people can't pronounce any other words in german either.

earlyevening

"inshular" for insular.

"inshulated" for insulated etc.

validusername1

Judgement Day wrote: »

I have always wrongly (?) called it Lid-dyl and will proudly continue to do so.

Yeah that's my point, no matter what you tell people, they still just continue to pronounce it the wrong way haha whatever suits though

validusername1

BattleCorp wrote: »

In fairness, most people can't pronounce any other words in german either.

My point was just that it annoys me when people learn the proper pronunciation but still pronounce it the wrong way, not whether people should automatically know which way to pronounce German words

GAAman

It has probably already been said but when the most senior professor who presides over an entire university faculty and seemingly cannot tell the difference between "Specific" and "Pacific", I have to fight the urge to launch a chair at their head!

starlit

Database, there are a few others too can't think of them off the top of my head though. There are two ways of saying it but some people say it one way or the other. date-ah-base which I don't like too americanny prefer data-base! as in its a database made of data!

smokingman

That spanner Matt Cooper trying to pronounce "Theatre".
"Thhey-atra"

What a ****in spanner...